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Santosh Yadav

Santosh Yadav is one of the few women in the world to have climbed Mount Everest twice. She first climbed the peak in May 1992 and then did it again in May 1993. She was born in 1969 in Rewari District of Haryana state in India and is an officer in Indo-Tibetan Border Police. She is an alumni of Maharani College, Jaipur. Living in Kasturba Hostel she joined Uttarkashi\s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. In her own words The hostel was facing the Aravallis. I used to watch villagers from my room going up. But after a while they used to disappear. One day, I decided to check up myself. There was nobody but a few mountaineers. I asked them if I could join. Their surprising affirmative answer motivated me to take to climbing. I saved money and enrolled for a course at Uttarkashi\s Nehru Institute of Mountaineering While studying she prepared herself to climb two greatest peak in life